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SpaceX recently made history in being the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. The celebrations were also shared by UK company Star Hydraulics, who provided the project with a series of electro-hydraulic servo valves for the rocket’s thrust vector control (TVC) system.

Whether powered by coal, oil or natural gas, nuclear or cleaner renewable resources like solar, wind, wave and hydroelectric, today’s electric power stations are comprised of a combination of mechanical and electronic components that go well beyond the primary generators that actually create the electrical current.

Generation facilities speed repairs and reduce costs by working with single source for full gamut of power generation equipment repairs from the mechanical to digital elements in industrial control systems.